{"id":38627,"date":"2022-01-05T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38627"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:52:02","slug":"us-war-lobby-fuels-conflict-in-russia-ukraine-and-syria-aaron-mate-interviews-col-douglas-macgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/05\/us-war-lobby-fuels-conflict-in-russia-ukraine-and-syria-aaron-mate-interviews-col-douglas-macgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"US War Lobby Fuels Conflict in Russia, Ukraine, and Syria: Aaron Mat\u00e9 interviews Col. Douglas Macgregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump&#8217;s failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation of Syria after the decade-long CIA dirty war. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Military Industrial Congressional Complex,&#8221; Macgregor says, &#8220;seems to be more powerful than anyone who occupies the office of the presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkYgXQo2aQs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate\">Support Pushback at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump&#8217;s failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38631,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions\/38631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}